Cyrano - Paperback

by Virginia Gay (Adapted by), Edmond Rostand (Author)

This Cyrano is both heartwarming and a challenge to heteronormacy...it pulls you into its vibrant and vivacious energy. --BroadwayWorld

Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room--a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she's deeply ashamed of something about herself.

Enter Roxanne: brilliant and beautiful, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words, just like Cyrano. But Roxanne only has eyes for Yan: hot, manly Yan, who is dumbstruck around Roxanne. (Probably shy, right?) Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it's not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it's Cyrano...

A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, Cyrano is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the lo-fi magic of theatre.

Author Biography

Virginia Gay is an Australian actress, writer, director, and artistic director of Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Her plays include Cyrano (Melbourne Theatre Company, 2022; Edinburgh Fringe and Park Theatre, London, 2024), a gender-flipped re-imagining of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.

Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.